We had an unwanted visitor this afternoon.
I heard our chickens making their warning noises and I glanced out but didn't see anything. We've been having a couple of tom cats roaming around and spraying. They never bother the chickens, but the chickens still freak out when they see them. I figured that's all it was since I'd just seen a black and white tom cat out front half an hour earlier. I sent my black lab mix out in the back with chickens and went back to what I was doing...
Then I heard the dog barking and growling. Looked out the door and a big fat raccoon was climbing the fence right into my dog's snapping jaws! In broad day light!
I ran out to look closer and realized something was really wrong with it...I know it's a warning sign to see a raccoon acting that way in the middle of the day. It had no eyeballs! Just crusted foamy sockets. It was also drooling and coughing. It slimed my dog's head, I'm worried she'll catch distemper or whatever it was sick with.
Her vaccines are out of date.
Here's a short video, because I had the little Flip video camera in my coat pocket. Check out the raccoons eyes. You can hear my head rooster freaking out, lol.
It got away. It ran under the neighbor's big shed and then no one could find it. I hope it goes somewhere far away from my property and dies.
I heard our chickens making their warning noises and I glanced out but didn't see anything. We've been having a couple of tom cats roaming around and spraying. They never bother the chickens, but the chickens still freak out when they see them. I figured that's all it was since I'd just seen a black and white tom cat out front half an hour earlier. I sent my black lab mix out in the back with chickens and went back to what I was doing...
Then I heard the dog barking and growling. Looked out the door and a big fat raccoon was climbing the fence right into my dog's snapping jaws! In broad day light!
I ran out to look closer and realized something was really wrong with it...I know it's a warning sign to see a raccoon acting that way in the middle of the day. It had no eyeballs! Just crusted foamy sockets. It was also drooling and coughing. It slimed my dog's head, I'm worried she'll catch distemper or whatever it was sick with.
Here's a short video, because I had the little Flip video camera in my coat pocket. Check out the raccoons eyes. You can hear my head rooster freaking out, lol.
It got away. It ran under the neighbor's big shed and then no one could find it. I hope it goes somewhere far away from my property and dies.